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General color bronze-black, the abdomen more shining. Membranes at 

 base of fore wings orange ; costal margin dull orange to end of radial cell ; 

 veins surrounding the apical areas of both pairs of wings black or nearly so. 

 The pale marks on the body are those usual to the genus. The fore femora 

 are black beneath, paler above, usually chestnut colored, sometimes striped. 



ATYPEBIA VANXIUZEEl 



Measurements in Millimeters. 



Male Type. Female Allotype. 



Length of body 14 i3-S 



Width of head across eyes 4.5 4.5 



Expanse of fore wings 35 36 



Length of valve '..... 2.5 



In addition to the type and allotype the following have been ex- 

 amined from California: — San Diego, May 5, 1891, three males, and 

 May 10, 1891, one female (Dr. F. E. Blaisdell) ; San Diego Comity, 

 March 22, 1914, four females (E. P. Van Duzee). In Mr. Van 

 Duzee's collection there are three males and one female also collected 

 by him in San Diego County, March 22, 1914. Los Angeles, 1887, 

 male (Coquillett). Hills near Los Angeles, May 11, 1915, female 

 (Alonzo Davis) ; Los Angeles, May 27, 1916, two males (Alonzo 

 Davis). Griffith Pa'rk, Los Angeles, May 11, 1918, male and two 

 females, and May 13, 19 18, male (Frank Morton Jones). Pasadena, 

 June 19, 1916, female and May, 1918, male (Alonzo Davis). Uni- 

 versal City, June 9, 1915, male (C. A. Hill). Santa Barbara, May 

 5, 1919, sixteen males and six females. May 20. 1919, four males and 

 two females (F. E. Winters). "California," six males and four 

 females. 



Mr. Winters writes of the cicadas he collected at Santa Barbara 

 as follows : " In the first week of May I caught my first cicadas on 



